On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:08:52PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: >> It might cut down a bit on your wpm (words per minute), that is >> true.
> Definitely, yes. The occurences of a few accented characters in > French are high enough for them to require single keystrokes to > enter éèçàù characters and not funky compose key combinations which > are only used by hard-core geeks (the normal user will just skip the > accents in such case and, therefore, will make a mess with our > language). According to this criteria, neither the France-French nor the Canadian-French nor the Belgium-French keyboard are good: - the Canadian-French keyboard requires two keystrokes for èçàù and ÈÇÀÙ; it has a single-keystroke only for éÉ. - the France-French keyboard requires "funky compose key combinations" for ÉÈÇÀÙ; it has singly keystrokes only for lower case accented letters and no dead accenting key. - the Belgian-French keyboard requires two keystrokes for ÉÈÀÙ; it has single keystrokes only for lower case accented letters, but features dead accenting keys (as an AltGr combination if I remember well). I'm not sure about Ç anymore. You might be thinking of the "Canadian Multilingual Standard" keyboard, but this one is indeed (so I've heard) difficult to find in Montreal. (This is probably getting off-topic for this bug; we should probably continue by private mail if at all.) -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
